parishioner
(pəˈrɪʃənə(r))
Forms: 5 parisshoner, 6 parysshoner, -issyoner, -ischoner, pari-, perishoner, parishener, -iner, -ner, -nore, parichyngher, 6– parishioner.
[f. parishion, parishen1 + -er1: for the form cf. practitioner, etc. See also the doublet parochiner.]
One of the inhabitants or community of a parish.
| 1471 in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 221 Item, I bequeath to the chirche werkes of the chirch of Brewton where I am parisshoner of 20s. 1523 Visitation Dean & Chapter York (MS.), With the mynds & holle consent of the Parichynghers of the same. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 44 Beyng parisheners of the said fiue parrish churches. 1546 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 221 Ffor the..Comffort of alle the parissyoners there. 1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. (1577) L iv b, A Priest of the Countrey saying Masse to his parishioners. 1567 Harman Caveat. 19 Your poore, indygente, and feable parishnores. 1591 Spenser M. Hubberd 561 Th' euill will Of all their Parishners they had constraind. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 193 The King..was the chiefe Parishioner. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 407 A man is said to be a Parishioner in respect of his Dwelling or Habitation..in such a Parish. 1857 Toulmin Smith Parish 1 The practical duties and rights of every Parishioner. |
Hence paˈrishionership, the status of a parishioner.
| 1842 Carlyle in Daily News 5 May (1899) 6/3 Shocked to admit that, after seven years of parishionership, I did not know the face of him. 1882 Ch. Times 6 Apr. 245 A shorter sojourn would have created sufficient parishionership for purposes of banns. |